1967 Nobel Peace Prize

1967 Nobel Peace Prize
"to the person (or group) who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
LocationOslo, Norway
Presented byNorwegian Nobel Committee
First awarded1901
WebsiteOfficial website
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The 1967 Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded because the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided that none of the nominations met the criteria in Nobel's will. Instead, the prize money was allocated with 1/3 to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.[1]

Deliberations

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Nominations

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In total, the Norwegian Nobel Committee received 95 nominations for 37 individuals and 10 organizations such as Vinoba Bhave, Grenville Clark, Norman Cousins, Danilo Dolci, Pope Paul VI, Bertrand Russell (awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature), U Thant, the International Union for Land Value Taxation and Free Trade and the Universal Esperanto Association (UEA). The highest number of nominations – 11 recommendation letters – was for the Austrian–Japanese politician Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi.[2]

Twenty five of these nominees were nominated for the first time such as Abbé Pierre, Ernest Gruening, Kurt Hahn, Thích Nhất Hạnh, İsmet İnönü, Danny Kaye, Sargent Shriver, Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Binay Ranjan Sen, Amnesty International (awarded in 1977), the World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA) and the Islands of Peace. The British philanthropist Sue Ryder was the only female nominee. Notable figures such as Félicien Challaye, Che Guevara, Woody Guthrie, Florence Jaffray Harriman, Harold Holt, Kathleen Innes, Annette Kolb, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Abraham Johannes Muste and Georges Vanier died in 1967 without having been nominated for the peace prize while the American philosopher William Ernest Hocking was nominated posthumously.[2]


Official list of nominees and their nominators for the prize
No. Nominee Country/
Headquarters
Motivations Nominator(s)
Individuals
1 Abbé Pierre, O.F.M.Cap
(1912–2007)
 France No motivation included. Bodil Koch
(1903–1972)
Poul Hartling
(1914–2000)
Julius Bomholt
(1896–1969)
2 Vinoba Bhave
(1895–1982)
 India No motivation included. Dominique Pire, O.P.
(1910–1969)
3 Charles Braibant
(1889–1976)
 France No motivation included. Gabriel Le Bras
(1891–1970)
4 Frederick Burdick (?)
(prob. Eugene Burdick (1918–1965))
 United States No motivation included. Paul Douglas
(1892–1976)
Watkins Abbitt
(1908–1998)
Kenneth J. Gray
(1924–2014)
5 Sanjib Chaudhuri (?)  India No motivation included. Thakur Bateshwar Singh (?)
6 Leonard Cheshire
(1917–1992)
 United Kingdom No motivation included. Bob Cotton
(1915–2006)
7 Grenville Clark
(1882–1967)
 United States No motivation included. Henry Hicks
(1915–1990)
Brunson MacChesney
(1909–1978)
Arthur Larson
(1910–1993)
Norman MacKenzie
(1894–1986)
Joseph S. Clark Jr.
(1901–1990)
Robert Kastenmeier
(1924–2015)
Louis Susky (?)
Arturo Orzábal de la Quintana
(1892–1969)
Harold J. Berman
(1918–2007)
8 Walter Corti
(1910–1990)
  Switzerland No motivation included. Max Goldener (?)
9 Norman Cousins
(1915–1990)
 United States No motivation included. Norman St John-Stevas
(1929–2012)
Mervyn Stockwood
(1913–1995)
10 Danilo Dolci
(1924–1997)
 Italy No motivation included. John Kay
(b. 1942)
members of the Swedish Parliament
11 Harry Elias Edmonds
(1883–1979)
 United States No motivation included. Oliver Kitson
(1915–1996)
12 J. William Fulbright
(1905–1995)
 United States No motivation included. Giannēs Koutsocheras
(1904–1994)
13 Ernest Gruening
(1887–1974)
 United States No motivation included. Denna Frank Fleming
(1893–1980)
14 Kurt Hahn
(1886–1974)
 Germany No motivation included. Helmut Haussmann
(b. 1943)
Hugh Trevor-Roper
(1914–2003)
15 Thích Nhất Hạnh
(1926–2022)
 Vietnam "for his lifelong efforts to promote peace, social justice and reconciliation in between North and South Vietnam." George McTurnan Kahin
(1918–2000)
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968)
Walter Nash
(1882–1968)
Jim Cairns
(1914–2003)
John G. Dow
(1905–2003)
Lawrence Fuchs
(1927–2013)
Horace L. Friess
(1900–1975)
16 William Ernest Hocking
(1873–1966)
 United States No motivation included. Bob Wilson
(1916–1999)
17 William P. Holman
(1914–2003)
 United States No motivation included. Odin Langen
(1913–1976)
18 Robert Maynard Hutchins
(1899–1977)
 United States No motivation included. J. William Fulbright
(1905–1995)
19 İsmet İnönü
(1884–1973)
 Turkey No motivation included. members of Turkish Parliament
20 Marc Joux (?)  France No motivation included. Auguste Billiemaz
(1903–1983)
21 Danny Kaye
(1911–1987)
 United States "for his role as the first UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador." John H. Lavely
(b. 1943)
22 Wayne Morse
(1900–1974)
 United States No motivation included. Denna Frank Fleming
(1893–1980)
23 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
(1919–1980)
 Iran No motivation included. members of the British Parliament
24 Pope Paul VI
(1897–1978)
 Vatican City No motivation included. José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones
(1898–1980)
25 Charles Rhyne
(1912–2003)
 United States No motivation included. Frank Moss
(1911–2003)
26 Das Moni Roy (1895–?)  India No motivation included. Subimal Kunnar Mukherjee (?)
27 Bertrand Russell
(1872–1970)
 United Kingdom No motivation included. Ivan Petrovsky
(1901–1973)
28 Sue Ryder
(1924–2000)
 United Kingdom No motivation included. Rab Butler
(1902–1982)
Bob Cotton
(1915–2006)
29 Binay Ranjan Sen
(1898–1993)
 India No motivation included. Rakel Seweriin
(1906–1995)
30 Sargent Shriver
(1915–2011)
 United States No motivation included. Richard Ottinger
(b. 1929)
31 Isidor Feinstein Stone
(1907–1989)
 United States No motivation included. Linus Pauling
(1901–1994)
32 Clarence Streit
(1896–1986)
 United States No motivation included. Geoffrey de Freitas
(1913–1982)
33 U Thant
(1909–1974)
 Burma No motivation included. American Friends Service Committee[a]
Friends Service Council[b]
professors at the Leiden University
5 members of the Norwegian Parliament
34 Östen Undén
(1886–1974)
 Sweden No motivation included. members of the Swedish Parliament
35 Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi
(1894–1972)
 Austria
 Japan
No motivation included. Gaston Eyskens
(1905–1988)
Victor Larock
(1904–1977)
John Biggs-Davison
(1918–1988)
Arthur Gibson (?)
Rudolf Suter
(1914–2011)
François Perin
(1921–2013)
Hans-Joachim von Merkatz
(1905–1982)
Erich Mende
(1916–1998)
Friedrich Heer
(1916–1983)
Franz Josef Strauss
(1915–1988)
Leopoldo Rubinacci
(1903–1969)
36 Quincy Wright
(1890–1970)
 United States No motivation included. J. David Singer
(1925–2009)
37 Shigeru Yoshida
(1878–1967)
 Japan No motivation included. 3 members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration
Shigeru Kuriyama
(1886–1971)
Organizations
38 Amnesty International
(founded in 1961)
London No motivation included. 4 members of the Norwegian Parliament
9 professors at the University of Oslo
39 Islands of Peace
(founded in 1958)
Huy No motivation included. Willy De Clercq
(1927–2011)
Raymond Vander Elst
(1914–2008)
40 Lions Clubs International
(founded in 1917)
Oak Brook No motivation included. Howard Cannon
(1912–2002)
Kaare Meland
(1915–2002)
Karl Boo
(1918–1996)
41 International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
(founded in 1952)
London No motivation included. 6 members of the Swedish Parliament
42 International Union for Land Value Taxation and Free Trade (The IU)
(founded in 1926)
London No motivation included. Johan Møller Warmedal
(1914–1988)
43 Organization of American States (OAS)
(founded in 1948)
Washington, D.C. No motivation included. Carlos Dunshee de Abranches
(1913–1983)
B. J. Tennery (?)
44 United Poets Laureate International (UPLI)
(founded in 1963)
Manila "for promoting world brotherhood and peace through poetry" Angel Macapagal
(1917–1993)
45 Universal Esperanto Association (UEA)
(founded in 1908)
Rotterdam No motivation included. Werner Kubitza
(1919–1995)
Karl Geldner
(1927–2017)
members of the Swedish Parliament
Émile Durieux
(1905–1995)
Louis Philibert
(1912–2000)
Franz Stein
(1900–1967)
5 members of the Norwegian Parliament
Kjell Bondevik
(1901–1983)
46 Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
(founded in 1915)
Geneva No motivation included. Marie Lous Mohr
(1892–1973)
47 World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA)
(founded in 1946)
New York City No motivation included. Paul Guggenheim
(1899–1977)

Norwegian Nobel Committee

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The following members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee appointed by the Storting were responsible for the selection of the 1969 Nobel laureate in accordance with the will of Alfred Nobel:[3]

1969 Norwegian Nobel Committee
Picture Name Position Political Party Other posts
Nils Langhelle[c]
(1907–1967)
Chairman
(until August)
Labour former Minister of Defence (1952–1954)
President of the Storting (1958–1965)
Bernt Ingvaldsen
(1902–1982)
Chairman
(from August)
Conservative President of the Storting (1965–1972)
Aase Lionæs
(1907–1999)
Member Labour Vice President of the Lagting (1965–1973)
Helge Refsum
(1897–1976)
Member Centre former Judge at the Gulating Court (1922–1949)
Helge Rognlien
(1920–2001)
Member Liberal former Leader of the Young Liberals of Norway (1946–1948)
Erling Wikborg[c]
(1894–1992)
Member Christian People former Leader of the Christian Democratic Party (1951–1955)


Notes

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  1. ^ The nomination was made by Colin W Bell on behalf of American Friends Service Committee.
  2. ^ The nomination was made by George W Whiteman on behalf of Friends Service Council.
  3. ^ a b "When Langhelle died in August 1967, Ingvaldsen replaced him as chairman and Erling Wikborg became a new member of the Committee."

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